What The Viking Sagas Reveal About Who Really Discovered America | BBC Timestamp [3:58]

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[SunkenCiv]

Over 1,000 years ago, Norse explorers reached North America from Greenland, centuries before Christopher Columbus. Join historian Dan Snow as he explores how ancient Viking sagas about the discoveries of legendary Norse explorer Leif Erikson offer clues to where these intrepid adventurers may have landed. This clip is from The Vikings Uncovered (2016).  

What The Viking Sagas Reveal About Who Really Discovered America | 3:58
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[xp38]

In Canada Newfoundland isn’t well known for potatoes. Prince Edward Island however is.

[Just mythoughts]

https://exploresouthernhistory.com/heavener1.html

[xkaydet65]

Never been to the PEI. Have gone to the beach at Shediac across the Northumberland Strait. Ridiculously warm water 700 miles north of Long Island. So shallow you can walk out a 1000 feet, just watch out for the jellyfish.

[Candor7]

Evidence supporting the Viking presence on Oak Island , Nova Scotia from 1100 or so, was found over the last few years.

[Bigg Red]

St. Brendan 6th Century

[SunkenCiv]

https://search.brave.com/search?q=L%27Anse+aux+Meadows

[SunkenCiv]

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[Orosius]

“Anyone remember this old book from 1961 THEY ALL DISCOVERED AMERICA by Charles Michael Boland. I had a copy decades ago.”

I still have my paperback copy, 1963 edition. Fascinating stuff.

[thinden]

bout how long were the long boats lief used?